HeyJaredThe Dart Board with Daniel Dart
Daniel Dart is the founder and General Partner of Rock Yard Ventures, a seed-stage venture firm focused on tech across core industries.
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Matt Kraning | Menlo Ventures - From DARPA to a $1.25B exit, why founders need to be right instead of popular, and the line every mediocre VC hides behind (opens the original)
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Meet Matt Kraning, Partner at Menlo Ventures. Matt's path to venture started accidentally through a stopover in Afghanistan. He was mid-PhD at Stanford when he stopped out to join DARPA, the Department of Defense's advanced research arm, and spent two years as their data scientist on the first operational DARPA program since Vietnam. When he came home, he co-founded Expanse with the people he'd met on that program, bootstrapped it on DARPA contracts, before eventually raising a seed round from P
Keri Findley | Tacora Capital - On asset-based lending, kissing a lot of frogs, and working hard to compound through tough times (opens the original)
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Meet Keri Findley, founder of Tacora Capital, one of the most exciting new specialty finance investment firms in the world today. Keri started Tacora five and a half years ago with backing from Peter Thiel, after spending the back half of her career at Third Point cutting credit deals with some of the world's biggest new fintech companies like SoFi, Upstart, and Lending Club. But long before she made her mark on Wall St, she was building discipline as a competitive figure skater training at 5 am
Ted Schlein | Ballistic Ventures, Kleiner Perkins - On generational firm building, 40 years in cyber, and why you have to earn the right (opens the original)
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Meet Ted Schlein, executive chairman and general partner of Ballistic Ventures, and general partner at Kleiner Perkins since 1996. Ted has been in the cybersecurity industry really since it began, helping build one of the first major companies in the sector, Symantec. He then joined Kleiner Perkins, where he has been involved for over three decades, during which he founded another cybersecurity darling, Fortify Software. And if that wasn't enough, he recently founded another venture firm, Ballis
Joanne Chen | Foundation Capital - On The Great Reorg, learning to let go of outcomes, and why every fund has to stand for something (opens the original)
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Meet Joanne Chen, General Partner at Foundation Capital.Foundation has been investing for over three decades, focused on seed and Series A, backing companies before product-market fit around two mega trends: AI and blockchain. The firm has had 35 IPOs, including Cerebras, which it incubated in its own offices. Joanne joined almost twelve years ago after being introduced to the firm by co-founder Kathryn Gould. Before venture, she was an engineer, a banker, and even spent a few years on the place
Howard Morgan | B Capital - On being machine 50 on the ARPANET, the blank check that became Uber, and how to pick great partners (opens the original)
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Meet Howard Morgan, Chair and General Partner of B Capital and one of the true pioneers of venture capital. Prior to B Capital, Howard co-founded First Round Capital with Josh Kopelman, served as founding president of Renaissance Technologies with Jim Simons, and was machine 50 on the ARPANET back in 1973. He spent more than a decade as a professor before going full-time into investing, and over the past 50 years, he has backed some of the world's biggest companies, including Uber, Roblox, and S
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